Placing concentration camps in Europe is a level of brashness that not even the Soviet Union achieved. This matter of outsourcing gulags could be a watershed in European-American relations: do we forgive this, because we've seen concentration camps before, or do we make a worldwide scandal for exactly that reason? It looks like these camps are within Eastern Europe's comfort zone. It wasn't heads of state who reported to Brussels that, damn it, these animals are building death camps in Europe! No, it was the Washington Post who first raised this issue.
....America shouldn't write reports about what horrible things happen in some countries, especially when they're doing them themselves. Do we sh*t on the doormat, and then get up in arms because the doormat is dirty?
Der Spiegel writes Condi Brings Little Clarity to Europe.
Everybody likes Fridays. But it's unlikely that anyone is looking forward to the end of this week more than US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In Brussels on Thursday on the last leg of her trip, the theme song of Rice's four-day visit to Europe is once again reaching its refrain:
Tell us about the CIA flights.
The US doesn't torture.
Tell us about the black sites.
The US doesn't torture.
The Toronto Star has Rice's Tortured Logic.